Affiliated Meetings

Psi Chi

Psi Chi sponsors programming hours as part of the MPA convention. These hours include three student poster sessions, several paper sessions for student Regional Research Award winners, as well as sessions on successful admission to graduate school and jobs for psychology majors. Students at institutions with no Psi Chi chapter may submit papers to the Psi Chi program. If those papers are accepted they can be presented at one of poster sessions but will not be eligible for a Regional Research Award. (The awards are reserved only for Psi Chi members.)

Abstracts of Psi Chi submissions are handled electronically by submitting the materials at http://www.uwlax.edu/psychology/PSICHIMPA.htm

Questions regarding the Psi Chi program at MPA should be directed to:

Dr. Betsy Morgan
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
335 Graff Main Hall
1725 State St., La Crosse, WI 54601-3742
Ph: (608) 785-8159; fax: (608) 785-8443
email: morgan.bets@uwlax.edu

Deadline for submissions to the Psi Chi program have been extended to Friday, November 7 at 5 pm. Complete instructions for submitting to the Psi Chi program held at MPA are available at the link above.

APA Division 27

The contact for the Division 27 program at MPA is

Nicole Porter, Ph.D.
SCRA Midwest Regional Coordinator
DePaul University Center for Community Research
990 W. Fullerton, #3100
Chicago Il 60614 nporter@depaul.edu
E-mail: nporter@depaul.edu

View the Call for Programs for Division 27.

CTUP

The Council of Teachers of Undergraduate Psychology (CTUP) invites all teachers of undergraduate psychology in high schools, community colleges, four-year colleges, and universities to join in improving education in psychology. For more than 26 years, CTUP has sponsored symposia, poster and paper sessions, invited addresses, teaching activity exchanges, and conversion and social hours at the regional psychology conventions. CTUP accepts three kinds of submissions: Oral Sessions (which are of a variety of different types), Creative Classroom Posters, and Creative Department or Program Posters (see below).

CTUP Oral Sessions

The Council for Teachers of Undergraduate Psychology invites you to submit a proposal for the CTUP Program at the MPA convention. Session formats may include individual and joint presentations, symposia, and roundtable discussions. Sessions may be one or two hours. Any topic of interest to educators of undergraduate psychology students is welcome.
Deadline: December 1, 2008
Submit to:
Kenneth Gray
Professor of Psychology
HSBS Division
College of DuPage
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Email submissions are encouraged and welcomed at grayke@cdnet.cod.edu
Submissions should include:

Title of session, session format, and proposed length
Organizer(s’) name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information
Participant(s’) name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information
Any special equipment requests (a computer video projector will be available)
For the CTUP program listing, please include on a separate sheet your title, organizer(s) and participant(s) and affiliation(s), and a 50-word summary.

CTUP Creative Classroom Posters

Deadline: December 1, 2008
Submit to:
- Donna Dahlgren
  Associate Professor
  Department of Psychology
  Indiana University Southeast
  4201 Grant Line Road
  New Albany IN 47150
Email submissions are encouraged and welcomed at ddahlgre@ius.edu
Submissions should include:
- Title of technique, method or teaching research.
- Author, affiliation, address, phone, and e-mail address.
- A 100 to 200 word description of technique's or research's purpose and use.
- An indication of the type of course and intended audience for which you use the technique or a description of the students used as participants.
- Evidence (quantitative or qualitative) of the technique's effectiveness.
- Constraints on using the technique (e.g., class size, materials, time); constraints on doing a demonstration at the convention (e.g., space, projectors); and availability of handouts that describe your technique. If a research project, a discussion of your results.
- For the CTUP program listing, please include on a separate sheet your title, author (s) and affiliation, and a 50-word summary.
Demonstrations will be selected from poster applications. Space allocation may limit the number of proposals that can be accepted for presentation.

CUPP Creative Department/Program Posters

The Council of Undergraduate Psychology Programs (CUPP), an organization that encourages communication about issues related to excellence in undergraduate education in psychology, is happy to sponsor the third annual Creative Department or Program Poster Session and Award at MPA. The award of $100 and 1 year free department membership in CUPP will go to the presenters of the best poster reporting on an activity or effort within any department or program which enhances undergraduate education in psychology. Examples might include new advising efforts, development of undergraduate resources, experiential learning or pre-professional opportunities, administrative efforts that enhance the undergraduate program, or offering of special sessions or activities that benefit undergraduate psychology students. To see the abstracts of posters from previous Creative Department sessions see http://www.uni.edu/walsh/CUPP.html.
CTUP-MPA Region has graciously agreed to allow the "Creative Department" posters to join the regular CTUP Creative Classroom Poster Session. Submit poster proposals for THE CREATIVE DEPARTMENT OR PROGRAM to the CUPP Midwestern Coordinator using the instructions listed below. Deadline: December 1, 2008
Submit to:
- Jennifer Siciliani, Ph.D.
  Department of Psychology
  University of Missouri - Saint Louis
  325 Stadler Hall
  One University Boulevard
  Saint Louis, Missouri 63121
  (314) 516-5469
- Email submissions are encouraged and welcomed at: sicilianij@msx.umsl.edu
Submissions should include:
- Title of department activity or effort.
- Author, affiliation, address, phone, and e-mail address.
- A 100 to 200 word description of department effort or activity and how it has enhanced the undergraduate program.
- Background information on the undergraduate psychology program (type of institution and enrollment, size of department, number of psychology majors, presence of graduate programs in psychology, and any other information necessary to set the context for the department activity.
- Evidence (quantitative or qualitative) of the effectiveness of this effort.
- Constraints if another department were considering using this approach (e.g., cost, time, space, staff, software or other materials, outside resources or contacts, etc.)
- For the CTUP program listing, please include on a separate sheet your title, author(s) and affiliation, and a 50-word summary, using the MPA format (e.g., authors' names in ALL CAPS, title in bold, see a sample in last year's program.
A CUPP sponsored Creative Department Award of $100 and free one-year membership to CUPP will go to the winning poster in this session.
For examples of department submissions, see abstracts of last year's Creative Department session at this link.